Quoting: rustybroomhandleValve is making a huge mistake though trusting game developers/publishers to just enable anticheat for Proton on their games. I still think hardly any of them will bother. Does not matter how easy Valve makes it.

What exactly do you propose as an alternative? Valve can't put working-on-Linux anti-cheat into other developer's games. They can't de-list games that don't work on Linux, since for all the strategic importance that Linux gaming has for Valve almost all of their money comes from Windows gamers. They can't ban anti-cheat from Steam and make the choice into put your game on Steam and have a load of cheaters, or put your game onto the store of an anti-cheat vendor and don't. Valve did succeed in encouraging developers to make native Linux games, but they couldn't entice the majority, and those games didn't have anti-cheat despite native anti-cheat having worked for years.

The carrot of making it really easy to do and the stick of not having the exposure of being on a highly desirable device are the tools that they have available to them.

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Hopefully this doesn't mean that they'll be encouraged to drop the native Linux version because of lack of experience from the rest of the team.

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Quoting: ObsidianBlkWhile I understand that mindset, I just wonder, if developers still nickel-n-dimed every bit and byte of their code-base like they used to with 8-bit and 16-bit machines of yester-year, how much more we might actually be able to pack into our games today!

Much, much less. "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter." Fine-tuning file sizes takes a lot of expensive time, which means there's less of those resources for everything else.

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Quoting: NezchanIf you're concerned about violent content, one character describes a very nasty scene that I imagine could be pretty upsetting. They also laugh about another person's physical pain

Spoiler, click me

including an eye injury from broken glass

. Just to be aware.

Thanks for the heads-up.

So the impression that I'm getting is that there's nothing that's suddenly upsetting (and I know to be looking out for that scene - for the unspoilered bit mostly), and it should be OK to play through together when he's about 7, with conversations about whatever potentially upsetting thing might be coming up later before they happen.

For context, he loved The Martian (with sufficient reassurance that things would actually turn out OK), he likes to watch Operation Ouch, and we're both aware of the subject matter of the game. I just want to make sure that we're both prepared for things happening and that he'll be able to put them into the right context.

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Quoting: randylRegarding Valve, I'm not sure why people would think they would choose Google over AWS or Azure because both of those dwarf Google services by a large margin. Maybe Valve would setup their own infrastructure?

In my case, I think Google will inevitably get bored of Stadia and kill it. At that point, if Valve think that streaming brings value to the PC gaming space, they might want to pick up Stadia's library of Linux native games and any latency busting tech Stadia has, and integrate them into Steam. And if they're already thinking about taking over Stadia when it's dead, perhaps they'd think about a partnership before it dies, to bring that library, and that streaming tech & infrastructure to Steam and some consumer confidence to Stadia. I'd be way more likely to put money into something if it wasn't run by someone with the notoriously short attention span of Google.

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Quoting: randylI'm playing through it casually. Overall, I like it.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm sure he'll be fine with the mechanics of the game - he's played a lot of challenging games already, and I can always take over for any tricky bits. It's moments of unexpected sadness that I'm wary of.

For example, we were watching Universe together a while ago. Pictures of stars, and planets, and interesting satellites, and Brian Cox wandering round the arse end of nowhere and it's all very jolly. "...Oh, and by the way, life will be gone forever when the sun explodes." Tears and existential dread before bedtime. That's the kind of thing I'd like to avoid before he's ready for it.

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I'm still waiting on my little one being old enough so that we can play through this together. I'm thinking maybe 7? If anyone that's played it has insight for guidance, that would be appreciated.

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Quoting: tuubiThe 5.11 HWE kernels, as well as 5.13, are available in the kernel manager app. Are the HWE kernels installed by default on Ubuntu LTS?

In previous releases it was different for whether you were using the original iso or a later one - the .2 release and later would put you on the HWE kernel by default but the first two wouldn't. With 20.04 they switched it so that the installer would decide, regardless of iso, whether you should be on the HWE kernel or not; I don't know what method it uses to decide.

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We now disable user-added PPAs, as they often cause upgrade issues for users.

I'm really surprised they weren't doing that before. Upstream Ubuntu has been disabling PPAs prior to release upgrades since PPAs were invented.

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With this release you're getting Kernel 5.4, a packaging base of Ubuntu 20.04

That seems really weird. Most Ubuntu 20.04 users are going to be on 5.11 already because of Hardware Enablement. If you're going to go through the effort to make a new downstream release based on that, why wouldn't you pick up the newer supported kernel from upstream?

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